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28 of March, 2023.
Opposition wants a monarch! The government fights passionately against it
by Lazaros Valoglou
For a good chunk of the month representatives of all major opposition parties (although STRATA reps left soon after the start) and provincial governors of certain provinces have been negotiating something in full secrecy, with no one knowing what it is. Earlier in the morning they revealed the plans in front of the whole congress to strong uproar from the government: they wanted a monarchy.
Ever since the revolution Thalapadis has been a republic. On the main islands the idea of monarchy is still strongly associated with the Shataran and with opression. Many people have fought themselves in the revolution against monarchy and want to have nothing to do with it, even if the monarch was agean
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Padipeirans on the other hand don’t hold the same taboo over monarchy. A good chunk of the city states, including major ones like Vivliapoli and Chrysa, ware monarchies before joining the TCR. Many people still hold strong ties to their old monarchs, and want them back.
The proposal, not surprisingly spearheaded by the monarchist party, but supported by others like the National Rally and Rykapadian Union, would rewrite Thalapadis’es constitution to turn it into a constitutional monarchy, with the monarch having actual power, and would allow for formed monarchs to get noble titles and some power in their respective provinces. This far out proposal is being rejected by the hardline republican Democratic Socialist party and their coalition partner GAIA. It is suspected that the proposal is so extreme in the hope that the government would make some concessions but that for now seems unlikely. The alliance of parties that brought forth the proposal are threatening to “force the government to negotiate a compromise if they’re not willing to freely agree to it.” How they mean to achieve that is unknown, but many expect spring to be marked with chaos and political turmoil.